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fly-leaf
ˈfly-leaf [f. fly n.2 + leaf.] A blank leaf at the beginning or end, but esp. at the beginning, of a book; the blank leaf of a circular, etc.1832 J. Constable Let. 28 Mar. (1966) IV. 371, I have bothered Sparrow out of a fly leaf, & I like it very well, preserving the original title. 1850 Clough Dip...
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Berowulf
It was compiled after 787—since the manuscript fly-leaf contains a copy in the same hand of Charlemagne's letter De litteris colendis of that year—but
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Lectionary 236
The fly-leaf on paper was added with date 1619.
It contains musical notes.
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paste-down
paste-down (ˈpeɪstdaʊn) [f. paste v. 5 + down adv. 1.] In modern bindings, that part of the end-paper which is pasted to the inside of the cover of a book; in earlier bindings, a piece of paper or parchment used as a lining inside a cover.1888 C. T. Jacobi Printers' Vocab. 97 Paste-downs, the blank ...
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Robert Drury (speaker)
At the top of a preliminary fly-leaf is written "Robertus Drury, miles", and below a list of his children: "William Drury, miles, Robertus Drury, miles
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inoculated
▪ I. † iˈnoculated, a. Obs. rare. [f. med. or mod.L. inoculāt-us (f. in- (in-3) + oculātus furnished with eyes) + -ed.] Not having an ‘eye’ or perforation.1599 A. M. tr. Gabelhouer's Bk. Physicke 34/1 Inoculated Pearles, or Pearles without perforationes. [Glossed on fly-leaf ‘unholed’.] 1604 [see ne...
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Codex Sangallensis 63
A single paper fly-leaf was added by a later hand.
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proclamatory
proclamatory, a. (prəʊˈklæmətərɪ) [f. L. prōclāmātor: see prec. and -ory.] 1. That proclaims or makes public announcement.1636 Jackson Creed viii. xii. §11 Hee uttered it, voce magnâ, with a proclamatory voice. 1830 Westm. Rev. Oct. 452 The honourable..gentleman would of course make a speech declara...
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John Barkstead
., to their friends in the Congregational Churches in London, with the manner of their apprehension, 1662 (this, according to a note of Wood's on the fly-leaf
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Lucy Anne FitzGerald
Letters from O'Connor to FitzGerald were smuggled out of the Gaol on the fly-leaf of a book.
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Elvina M. Hall
In the spring of 1865, Hall wrote "Jesus Paid It All" "on the fly-leaf of the New Lute of Zion hymnal, in the choir of the Methodist Episcopal Church,
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Sinfonietta (Britten)
Auden inscribed his poem "It's Farewell to the Drawing-room's Civilised Cry" on the fly-leaf of a miniature score of the Sinfonietta.
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Abraham Cohen of Zante
Cohen's engraved self-portrait appears on the fly-leaf of his Kehunnat Abraham complete with wig.
In 1879 M.
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John Archer (physician)
The British Museum copy of this work has written on the fly-leaf, in a contemporary hand — and probably a similar advertisement was written in every copy
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Once an Eagle
Scales, the commandant of the US Army War College in 1997 wrote on the book's fly-leaf "Once an Eagle has been the literary moral compass for me and my
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